Specifically, SABIC applied CFD modeling to compare a baseline day cab with dimensions and geometry representative of top aerodynamic designs availabletoday to a day cab featuring many iterations of an injection-molded, aerodynamically-optimized roof fairing. MORE

Now owned by Indian automaker Tata, Range Rover’s flagship has been given the most cutting-edge features availabletoday. These hybrids are available to order in Europe now, but we are still waiting to hear if and when they will reach the United States. MORE

The Proterra Solution, the company’s first 40-foot model, weighs less than any other transit bus availabletoday and offers the highest fuel efficiency on the market. Proterra Inc. launched its second-generation all-electric bus, The Proterra Solution, at the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference. MORE

Performance-wise, it meets the Daimler requirement of a three-to-four minute complete fill with a delivered gas temperature of -40 °C, the best availabletoday. Linde’s newest hydrogen fueling station has officially begun operating at AC Transit’s Emeryville, California, municipal bus operating division, fueling 12 fuel cell buses and up to 20 passenger cars a day. This is the first public hydrogen fueling station in the San Francisco Bay area. MORE

Compared to the high-pressure tanks in use today, the H 2 tank potentially requires less installation space. Mercedes-Benz F 125! research vehicle. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz presented the F125! MORE

SABIC’s EXATEC coating makes this possible because it is the one solution availabletoday that meets European regulatory requirements for transparency, scratch and abrasion resistance for PC-based vehicle windows. MORE

The Highway Pilot is comparable to an autopilot system in an airplane—probably the most advanced form of autonomous mobility in existence today, the company noted. The radar sensor is the basis for the Proximity Control Assist and Emergency Braking Assist already availabletoday. MORE

billion today to $102 billion in 2030, corresponding to a 26% CAGR. ADAS are entering the latest generation of vehicles with common features availabletoday including lane departure warning; automatic parking; autonomous emergency braking; and lane keeping assist. MORE

While most PEVs today have a range of between 40 and 100 miles, continued concerns over range and the availability of charging infrastructure, remain among the biggest impediments to the wider adoption of Li-ion batteries. of Li-ion chemistries are availabletoday, none of them can claim to be the ideal solution. MORE

The automotive industry has identified a future generation of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) materials for lightweighting vehicles across all lines, with an availability target of 2017-2025 for integration into vehicle structural designs and production. MORE

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings availabletoday, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. MORE

A significant level of electrification is certainly viable for these vehicles, as BEVs and PHEVs are currently commercially available. Renewable and nuclear electricity supply technologies are availabletoday. MORE

All of ClipperCreek’s charging station products are safety certified by independent testing laboratories and compatible with all plug in vehicles availabletoday. ClipperCreek has upgraded the popular HCS-40 and CS-40 series EV charging stations from 30 Amps to 32 Amps continuous as a standard offering, with no increase in price. MORE

The TC3xx microcontrollers offer the highest level of integration on the market and real-time performance that is three times higher than that availabletoday. Infineon Technologies AG launched the next generation of its AURIX microcontroller family. MORE

milliohms, the CAP-XX module offers the best power density availabletoday, the company claims, and the energy necessary to support frequent start cycles in all weather and traffic conditions. CAP-XX stop-start system architecture. MORE

Today, we have efficiency ratings for the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, the EPA finalizes rules that will limit carbon emissions from power plants, and we drive the 2016 Mazda CX-3 crossover. We've updated our July plug-in electric car sales report, and will continue to do so as more information becomes available. Today in Car News MORE

The majority of the system components were available from Parker offerings, including the bladder accumulator, hydraulic cooler, engine mounted pump, and gearbox with pump/motors. The series hydraulic transit bus. Click to enlarge. MORE

Instead of relying on a series of heavily-subsidized “mega-stations”, Hydrogen-XT is proposing combining many small, inexpensive fueling outlets that reform hydrogen from natural gas with intelligent software that locates the stations and displays fuel availability, reserves the amount a customer wants, routes the customer to the selected station, and then completes the transaction, all on a smartphone or infotainment system. MORE

Bosch is investing €400 million (US$455 million) per year in electromobility; part of that investment is researching batteries with twice the energy density at lower costs than availabletoday by 2020. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are superior in this respect, storing more than three times the amount of energy per kilogram. MORE

Neste Pro Diesel will be produced at Neste Oil’s Porvoo refinery and will be available at Neste Oil’s service stations across Finland beginning this fall. Tests at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Tampere University of Applied Science, and Neste Oil’s Motor Laboratory have shown that Neste Pro Diesel offers the best set of fuel product properties availabletoday for all diesel vehicles. MORE

The CEC program provides funding to help both develop next generation transportation technology components and vehicles, as well as speed the deployment of lower carbon transportation product availabletoday. MORE

Vu8’s source assembly combines the IR Laser emitter with a dominant wavelength of 905 nm and diffractive optics, providing a wide illumination beam which is available in three horizontal (20°, 48° and 100°) and two vertical (0,3° and 3°) field of view options. MORE

The GENIVI Alliance, a non-profit alliance focused on developing an open in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and connectivity software platform for the transportation industry, launched the GENIVI Vehicle Simulator ( GVS ) open source project, with both developer and end-user code available immediately. While there are multiple potential uses for the application, we believe the GVS is the most comprehensive open source vehicle simulator availabletoday. MORE

The system solution comes in a 7 × 7 mm QFN package, with wettable flanks ready for automatic optical solder inspection and is available with 16k, 32k or 64k Flash memory, up to 8 KB SRAM and 2 KB Read-While-Write Flash. Various tools such as GCC and IAR C/C++ compilers, ICE debuggers and a QTouch software function library are also available. The SAMHA1GxxA is availabletoday in volume production with prices starting at $2.88. Microchip Technology Inc., MORE

Ford has a long-standing relationship with Velodyne and our investment is a clear sign of our commitment to making autonomous vehicles available for consumers around the world. Our investment will accelerate our efforts in autonomous driving with what, in our view, are the best LiDAR sensors availabletoday and advance Velodyne’s development of increasingly sophisticated LiDAR sensors. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc., MORE

Audi believes there are a variety of viable alternative fuel solutions, including electric, but diesel is readily availabletoday. The objective is to reward efficiency, and diesel is an efficient alternative availabletoday. A poll conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of Audi of America found that a majority of American drivers would support government initiatives aimed at spurring clean diesel vehicle sales in the US. MORE

We have partnered with customers in the premium automotive segment from our Duffel, Belgium facility for years to develop and produce some of the most technically advanced lightweight aluminum solutions availabletoday. To optimise friction behavior in the press-shop, different types of pre-lubes (oils and hot-melts) are available upon request. Aleris will invest $350 million to upgrade capabilities at its aluminum rolling mill in Lewisport, Kentucky. MORE

The collaboration will also focus on creating new energy technology that will enable fuels derived from sustainable sources to be readily available alongside conventional fossil fuels in the market. EBI’s research focus to date has been on enabling feedstock availability—a goal shared with Shell, which currently holds 50% equity in Raízen, the world’s largest producer of one of the lowest-CO 2 biofuels availabletoday. MORE

The HBLFB rivals the performance of the best membrane-based systems availabletoday without the need for costly ion-exchange membranes, high-pressure reactants or high-temperature operation. Schematic of reactant flow within the HBLFB. During discharge, liquid bromine is reduced to hydrobromic acid along the lower solid graphite electrode, and hydrogen is oxidized at the upper porous electrode. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. MORE

The new 8NR-FTS 1.2-liter direct-injection turbo engine is now available as an option for the partially redesigned Auris, which went on sale in Japan today. Toyota’s new turbo engines deliver fuel economy on a par with some of the most efficient non-hybrids availabletoday. MORE

Standards adopted today require that all showerheads not exceed 2.0 gallons per minute models availabletoday. The California Energy Commission approved a grant of $2.4 million to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to build and to test seven hybrid fuel-cell, Class 8 trucks to transport cargo at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports. The Commission also approved $1.2 MORE

In about a year’s time Toyota will launch the long-awaited plug-in hybrid version of its top-selling Prius, selling it alongside the regular version of the Prius that’s already availabletoday. According to a new report from Japan’s Nikkei business daily, however, Toyota may make plug-in hybrid the standard option for the Prius MORE

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. The team looked at once-daily charging, at home or at work, in order to study the adoption potential given today’s charging infrastructure. MORE

Now there's a zero-emission version, and it's availabletoday. It doesn't get much attention as a green vehicle, but the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck line is the best-selling vehicle line at General Motors. That means that you can acquire one even before this spring's launch of the all-new models with more efficient V-6 and V-8 gasoline MORE

The new IXYS SIMBUS F module is an industry-standard outline optimized for IGBT phase leg configurations providing the highest current density availabletoday. The SIMBUS F is available in 225, 300 and 450 ampere 1.2kV rating. IXYS Corporation introduced a new range of IGBT (insulated-gate bipolar transistor) modules for high power applications. MORE

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. The AMP is being developed based on the recommendation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which today released a report entitled “Ensuring Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing.” MORE

Novelis, the world leader in automotive aluminum sheet, and Henkel Adhesive Technologies today signed a long-term agreement to collaborate on the development of advanced bonding technologies for the use of aluminum in high-volume vehicles. BONDERITE M-NT 8453 is designed to outperform other available pre-treatments in its compatibility with the new thermal treatment processes being introduced by automakers to achieve elevated levels of strength from aluminum alloys. MORE

Today, we have efficiency ratings for the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, the EPA finalizes rules that will limit carbon emissions from power plants, and we drive the 2016 Mazda CX-3 crossover. We've updated our July plug-in electric car sales report, and will continue to do so as more information becomes available. Today in Car News

Now there's a zero-emission version, and it's availabletoday. It doesn't get much attention as a green vehicle, but the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck line is the best-selling vehicle line at General Motors. That means that you can acquire one even before this spring's launch of the all-new models with more efficient V-6 and V-8 gasoline

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The collaboration will also focus on creating new energy technology that will enable fuels derived from sustainable sources to be readily available alongside conventional fossil fuels in the market. EBI’s research focus to date has been on enabling feedstock availability—a goal shared with Shell, which currently holds 50% equity in Raízen, the world’s largest producer of one of the lowest-CO 2 biofuels availabletoday.

Bosch is investing €400 million (US$455 million) per year in electromobility; part of that investment is researching batteries with twice the energy density at lower costs than availabletoday by 2020. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are superior in this respect, storing more than three times the amount of energy per kilogram.

The new 8NR-FTS 1.2-liter direct-injection turbo engine is now available as an option for the partially redesigned Auris, which went on sale in Japan today. Toyota’s new turbo engines deliver fuel economy on a par with some of the most efficient non-hybrids availabletoday.

Specifically, SABIC applied CFD modeling to compare a baseline day cab with dimensions and geometry representative of top aerodynamic designs availabletoday to a day cab featuring many iterations of an injection-molded, aerodynamically-optimized roof fairing.

Standards adopted today require that all showerheads not exceed 2.0 gallons per minute models availabletoday. The California Energy Commission approved a grant of $2.4 million to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to build and to test seven hybrid fuel-cell, Class 8 trucks to transport cargo at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports. The Commission also approved $1.2

The GENIVI Alliance, a non-profit alliance focused on developing an open in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and connectivity software platform for the transportation industry, launched the GENIVI Vehicle Simulator ( GVS ) open source project, with both developer and end-user code available immediately. While there are multiple potential uses for the application, we believe the GVS is the most comprehensive open source vehicle simulator availabletoday.

Now owned by Indian automaker Tata, Range Rover’s flagship has been given the most cutting-edge features availabletoday. These hybrids are available to order in Europe now, but we are still waiting to hear if and when they will reach the United States.

In about a year’s time Toyota will launch the long-awaited plug-in hybrid version of its top-selling Prius, selling it alongside the regular version of the Prius that’s already availabletoday. According to a new report from Japan’s Nikkei business daily, however, Toyota may make plug-in hybrid the standard option for the Prius

Ford has a long-standing relationship with Velodyne and our investment is a clear sign of our commitment to making autonomous vehicles available for consumers around the world. Our investment will accelerate our efforts in autonomous driving with what, in our view, are the best LiDAR sensors availabletoday and advance Velodyne’s development of increasingly sophisticated LiDAR sensors. Velodyne LiDAR, Inc.,

Bosch is investing €400 million (US$455 million) per year in electromobility; part of that investment is researching batteries with twice the energy density at lower costs than availabletoday by 2020. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are superior in this respect, storing more than three times the amount of energy per kilogram.

The new 8NR-FTS 1.2-liter direct-injection turbo engine is now available as an option for the partially redesigned Auris, which went on sale in Japan today. Toyota’s new turbo engines deliver fuel economy on a par with some of the most efficient non-hybrids availabletoday.

The Proterra Solution, the company’s first 40-foot model, weighs less than any other transit bus availabletoday and offers the highest fuel efficiency on the market. Proterra Inc. launched its second-generation all-electric bus, The Proterra Solution, at the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference.

billion today to $102 billion in 2030, corresponding to a 26% CAGR. ADAS are entering the latest generation of vehicles with common features availabletoday including lane departure warning; automatic parking; autonomous emergency braking; and lane keeping assist.

The majority of the system components were available from Parker offerings, including the bladder accumulator, hydraulic cooler, engine mounted pump, and gearbox with pump/motors. The series hydraulic transit bus. Click to enlarge.

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. The team looked at once-daily charging, at home or at work, in order to study the adoption potential given today’s charging infrastructure.

Performance-wise, it meets the Daimler requirement of a three-to-four minute complete fill with a delivered gas temperature of -40 °C, the best availabletoday. Linde’s newest hydrogen fueling station has officially begun operating at AC Transit’s Emeryville, California, municipal bus operating division, fueling 12 fuel cell buses and up to 20 passenger cars a day. This is the first public hydrogen fueling station in the San Francisco Bay area.

While most PEVs today have a range of between 40 and 100 miles, continued concerns over range and the availability of charging infrastructure, remain among the biggest impediments to the wider adoption of Li-ion batteries. of Li-ion chemistries are availabletoday, none of them can claim to be the ideal solution.

A significant level of electrification is certainly viable for these vehicles, as BEVs and PHEVs are currently commercially available. Renewable and nuclear electricity supply technologies are availabletoday.

The Highway Pilot is comparable to an autopilot system in an airplane—probably the most advanced form of autonomous mobility in existence today, the company noted. The radar sensor is the basis for the Proximity Control Assist and Emergency Braking Assist already availabletoday.

We have partnered with customers in the premium automotive segment from our Duffel, Belgium facility for years to develop and produce some of the most technically advanced lightweight aluminum solutions availabletoday. To optimise friction behavior in the press-shop, different types of pre-lubes (oils and hot-melts) are available upon request. Aleris will invest $350 million to upgrade capabilities at its aluminum rolling mill in Lewisport, Kentucky.

The automotive industry has identified a future generation of Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) materials for lightweighting vehicles across all lines, with an availability target of 2017-2025 for integration into vehicle structural designs and production.

The CEC program provides funding to help both develop next generation transportation technology components and vehicles, as well as speed the deployment of lower carbon transportation product availabletoday.

milliohms, the CAP-XX module offers the best power density availabletoday, the company claims, and the energy necessary to support frequent start cycles in all weather and traffic conditions. CAP-XX stop-start system architecture.

All of ClipperCreek’s charging station products are safety certified by independent testing laboratories and compatible with all plug in vehicles availabletoday. ClipperCreek has upgraded the popular HCS-40 and CS-40 series EV charging stations from 30 Amps to 32 Amps continuous as a standard offering, with no increase in price.

Instead of relying on a series of heavily-subsidized “mega-stations”, Hydrogen-XT is proposing combining many small, inexpensive fueling outlets that reform hydrogen from natural gas with intelligent software that locates the stations and displays fuel availability, reserves the amount a customer wants, routes the customer to the selected station, and then completes the transaction, all on a smartphone or infotainment system.

US President Barack Obama today launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. The AMP is being developed based on the recommendation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which today released a report entitled “Ensuring Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing.”

Neste Pro Diesel will be produced at Neste Oil’s Porvoo refinery and will be available at Neste Oil’s service stations across Finland beginning this fall. Tests at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Tampere University of Applied Science, and Neste Oil’s Motor Laboratory have shown that Neste Pro Diesel offers the best set of fuel product properties availabletoday for all diesel vehicles.

The system solution comes in a 7 × 7 mm QFN package, with wettable flanks ready for automatic optical solder inspection and is available with 16k, 32k or 64k Flash memory, up to 8 KB SRAM and 2 KB Read-While-Write Flash. Various tools such as GCC and IAR C/C++ compilers, ICE debuggers and a QTouch software function library are also available. The SAMHA1GxxA is availabletoday in volume production with prices starting at $2.88. Microchip Technology Inc.,

Novelis, the world leader in automotive aluminum sheet, and Henkel Adhesive Technologies today signed a long-term agreement to collaborate on the development of advanced bonding technologies for the use of aluminum in high-volume vehicles. BONDERITE M-NT 8453 is designed to outperform other available pre-treatments in its compatibility with the new thermal treatment processes being introduced by automakers to achieve elevated levels of strength from aluminum alloys.

Audi believes there are a variety of viable alternative fuel solutions, including electric, but diesel is readily availabletoday. The objective is to reward efficiency, and diesel is an efficient alternative availabletoday. A poll conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of Audi of America found that a majority of American drivers would support government initiatives aimed at spurring clean diesel vehicle sales in the US.

The TC3xx microcontrollers offer the highest level of integration on the market and real-time performance that is three times higher than that availabletoday. Infineon Technologies AG launched the next generation of its AURIX microcontroller family.

Vu8’s source assembly combines the IR Laser emitter with a dominant wavelength of 905 nm and diffractive optics, providing a wide illumination beam which is available in three horizontal (20°, 48° and 100°) and two vertical (0,3° and 3°) field of view options.

SABIC’s EXATEC coating makes this possible because it is the one solution availabletoday that meets European regulatory requirements for transparency, scratch and abrasion resistance for PC-based vehicle windows.

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings availabletoday, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte.

The new IXYS SIMBUS F module is an industry-standard outline optimized for IGBT phase leg configurations providing the highest current density availabletoday. The SIMBUS F is available in 225, 300 and 450 ampere 1.2kV rating. IXYS Corporation introduced a new range of IGBT (insulated-gate bipolar transistor) modules for high power applications.

The HBLFB rivals the performance of the best membrane-based systems availabletoday without the need for costly ion-exchange membranes, high-pressure reactants or high-temperature operation. Schematic of reactant flow within the HBLFB. During discharge, liquid bromine is reduced to hydrobromic acid along the lower solid graphite electrode, and hydrogen is oxidized at the upper porous electrode. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge.